2025 in Vermont
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Incumbents
State government
- Governor: Phil Scott (R)
Events
- January 20 – Border Patrol Agent David Maland is shot and killed during a traffic stop in Coventry. Ophelia Bauckholt, who shot Maland, is shot and killed by agents. Maland's murder is connected to other homicides committed by a rationalist group called the Zizians.[1]
- March 5 – Elder financial abuse: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District Court of Vermont indicts and charges 25 Canadians for conspiracy to defraud elderly people in the United States out of US$21 million and charges five of those 25 with conspiracy to commit money laundering.[2]
- March 20 – The United States closes Canadian access to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a library that straddles the border of Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec. The library later opens a new entrance on the Canadian side.[3]
- April 14 – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrest Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester. Mahdawi had been involved with pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia in 2023 and 2024.[4]
- April 30 – Federal judge Geoffrey W. Crawford orders that Mohsen Mahdawi be released.[5]
- September 18 – Vermont joins the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, a collaborative health agency among Northeastern states.[6]
- October 18 – Transgender Middlebury College student Lia Smith dies by suicide.[7]
- October 20 – State Senator Sam Douglass announces he will resign following a report by Politico that he and other members of Young Republicans groups, including his wife Brianna, were in a group chat that contained racist and antisemitic messages.[8]
- November 12 – Sterling College in Craftsbury announces it will close after the Spring 2026 semester.[9]